Kill Switch
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From: Michigan
Good to hear I'm not the only one. Have done it twice and would hate to air head out and do it on the highway in rush hour traffic, kind of wish I could flipflop the kill switch with the start switch.
Have to look at it, maybe I can.
Have to look at it, maybe I can.
I doubt seriously that's what the cop would say. Can't see 2 foot in front and still on the road, flasher won't help.
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
Those of you who say the kill switch is useless have never been a position to desperately need one. Fairly new hot rod motor no handlebar switch just the old dial on the tank dash FLH one , hooked a hard left in a driveway and the throttle cable hung wide open. Now I'm off balance still rolling the engines redlining and the bimbo on the back is trying her damnedest to get off, seemed like a lifetime before I could shut it down. As it was the oil system over pressured blew the tank plug across the street along with a qt of oil and cracked the seam on one of the fatbob tanks it shook so violently.
Wired that friggen switch in the next day but the other repairs went 2 weeks as that motor came back down , valve springs got replaced along with 2 bent valves, new pistons & rings because of the galling on the skirts. Honestly lucky it didn't throw a rod out the case or blow the headbolts or base studs.
Switch is there for a reason on you if you fat finger it.
Wired that friggen switch in the next day but the other repairs went 2 weeks as that motor came back down , valve springs got replaced along with 2 bent valves, new pistons & rings because of the galling on the skirts. Honestly lucky it didn't throw a rod out the case or blow the headbolts or base studs.
Switch is there for a reason on you if you fat finger it.
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From: east texas
Plus 1000, has saved my butt many times
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